VOL. 42.
Professional Cards
DCALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd street.
V. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods de W il
iiamson. [apl2,'7l
DO. A.B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services
to thecominunity. Office, No 52.3 Washingtonstreet,
one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. jjant,'7l
C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Leieter'e
. building, in the room formetly occupied by Dr. E.
J Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. [VIA '76.
GEO. B. ORLADY, Attorney-at-Law, 405 Penn Street,
Huntingdon, Pa. [n0v17,'75
GL ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. Brown's new building,
. No. 620, Penn Street, Linntingdon, Pa. [ap12.71
H.C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No. —, Penn
Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl9,'7l
T SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon,
. Pa. Office, Penn Street, three doors west of 3rd
Street. Dan4,'7l
T W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law and General Claim
. Agent, Huntingdon, Pa. Soldiers' claims against the
Government for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invalid
pensions attended to with great care and promptness. Of
fice on Penn Street. pan4,'7l
LT 8. GEISSINGER, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public,
. Huntingdon, Pa. Office, No. 230 Penn Street, oppo
site Court Hon.. [febs,'7l
E. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa.,
►J. office in Monitor building, Penn Street. Prompt
and careful attention given to all legal b.inees.
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don, Pa. Special attention given to collection',
and all other legal busineas attended to with care and
promptneel. Office, No. 229, Peon Street. [apl9,'7l
Legal Advertisements.
TREASURER'S SALE OF SEATED
and unseated land in Huntingdon county,
Pa. By virtue of sundry acts of the General As
sembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
relating to the sale of seated and unseated land in
the county of Huntingdon, for taxes due and un
paid, I will offer at public sale, at the Court House,
in the borough of Huntingdon, on the SECOND
MONDAY OF JUNE, 1878 (being the 10th day of
the month) at 10 o'clock A. M., the following de
scribed pieties of land, or such part thereof as may
be necessary to satisfy the amount of taxes and
costs due and unpaid against the same, up to and
including the year 1876 asainst the same, and con
tinue the sale from day to day, as the same may
be found necessary.
TERMS OF SALE :—The amount of taxes and
costs must be paid when the land is struck off, or
the sale may be avoided, and the property put up
and resold
Acr. Pr
Owners or iVarranteee. Tax ,
Barree Township.
865 ... James Ash or William Shannon... $59 SO
437 ... Moses Vanost
436 ... Robert Austin, (Jno. MoCahan's
heirs)....
29 70
160 ... Martin Orlady lO SS
437 William Mitchenor
433 ... Thomas Mitchenor. 2B 78
Brady Township
10 ... John McComb..
302 ... Joseph Webb
402 ... John Watson
397 ... Robert Watson
33 ... Daniel Ring
150 ... John McComb
1 lot of land, Campbell & Jacobs
Cass Township.
200 ... Samuel Hartsock
207 ... Henry Sills.
400 ... John Freed
137 ... Samuel Morrison, part
150 ... Hugh Morrison, part.
196 ... Andrew 5i115..........
434 ... Sarah Hartsock
400 ... Sarah Barrick
190 ... Jacob Barrick
400 ... Peter Hartsock
300 ... Elizabeth Hartsock.
Cromwell Township.
153 53 George Stevenson
418 20 John Jourdon
393 41 Samuel Galbraith
389 31 Charles Boyles.
4J2 53 Alexander M. Keehen
250 ... George Stevenson
393 17 John Smith
Carbon Township.
53 ... Henry Rhodes (M. J. Martin
owner)
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133 ... Cook .1 Elder, (J. S. Castnu)
360 ... William Spring (Rebuts & Co.)
242 ... William Blan do
272 • ... John Blan do
220 ... Benjamin Price do
339 ... Henry Alexander do
228 ... Speer & Daugherty do
438 40 do do ..... 16 20
65 ... John P. Baker, (Orbison & Dorris) 741
106 ... John P. Baker, (David 81air)..... 11 76
2 ... B. C. Lytle
167 ... William Settle, (Rebuts & Co)
21 ... Andrew Anderson do .
4 ... Samuel Kefterman do .
50 ... John M'Clain do .
401 ... Shoemaker's heirs do .
47 ... Joseph Martin do .
322 ... John Murphy do .
57 ... G. W. Speer do .
60 ... W. S. Entrekin do .
163 ... Isaac Cook, jr do .
121 Jacob Cresswell do .
75 A. S. Cresswell do .
12 ... Samuel Ketterman do .
1 lot and house, Michael McHugh
336 ... John Weist, (J. S. Schmick, W
k Elias Weist) l2 43
432 .. John Waist
394 ... John Weist
Franklin Township,
30 ... Robert Gardner ..... ... ....
Hopewell Township
220 ... Samuel Davis, (Savage)...
200 ... Conrad Bates
180 ... Leonard Rumbler
202 ... Benjamin Shoemaker
Juniata Township.
340 ... J. B. Georn & Wm. Barrick..
10 ... A. H. Brumbaugh
Jackson Township.
400 ... Thomas Palmer
400 ... George Stever ll 20
400 ... Jacob Hellzheitner
400 ... Henry Baker ll 20
400 ... Thomas Russell
400 ... David Ralston
400 ... Ephraim Jones
400 ... John Brown
400 ... Jonathan Priestly
422 James Dean
400 ... Thomas Ralston ll 20
400 ... Henry Canan
400 ... John Adams ll 20
400 ... Henry West ll 20
400 Alexander Johnston
400 ... Thomas McClure ll 20
400 ... John Ralston
400 ... ( Samuel Canso ll 20
400 ... Abraham Dean.
400 ... James Fulston
400 Samuel Marshall ll 20
400 ... Robert Caldwell. H 20
400 Matthew Simpson
400 ... James McClure or McClain ll 20
400 ... John Fulston ll 20
400 ... John Galbraith ll 20
400 ... George Wice ll 20
37 ... Dernney's heirs 3 32
Lincoln Towns:hip,
174 ... Isaac Wimpler
223 ... Peter Wilson
210 ... Joseph Miller
Morris Township.
354 ... Samuel P. Wallace's heirs.
Oneida Township.
36 ... Samuel Gregory
19 ... James Cu11in.....
Penn Townehip.
240 Jane Sellers
100 ... John & George Saylor
Porter Township.
350 ... William Smith, D. D
74 ... Charles leekler
Springfield Township
400 ... Nathan Ord
Tell Township.
200 ... Patterson & Stem
Tod Township.
40u ... Nancy Davis, Trexler and Brum
baugh
100 ... Edward Tubin
40 ... Jacob Cresswell's Heirs
150 ... Miles Putt
250 ... Timpy Shaffer
395 ... Samuel Cornelius
96 ... Speer 16 Martin
152 ... Eliel Smith
400 ... Jonathan Jones
400 ... Owen Jones
310 ... Thomas Mowan
355 ... Frances Mowan
279 ... James Wister
260 ... Sarah Ilartsock
210 ... Joseph Miller
175 ... Peter Wilson
174 ... Isaac Wampler
100 ... J. R. Flanagan
250 ... M. J. Martin
Union Township.
429 ... James Fea
400 ... Abraham Sell .
50 ... Abraham Morrison
220 ... Solomon Sell
Legal Advertisements
195 ... Margaret Sell
100 A. H. Bowman
11 ... A. H. Bowman
16 A. H. Bowman
Walker Township.
117 ... John Kerr's Estate, (Wm. Crum,
owner) l7 20
422 ... Susan Laurish
10 ... Michael Low
206 ... William Stow, (G. &J. H. Shoen
her)
208 ... C. Stow, ~ " .‘
215 ... R. Stewart " '••• 34 40
30 ... Prtrick Moore's Heirs 3 00
14 ... George R080
West Township.
369 ... William Bracken lB 45
12 ... William Reed 6O
436 ... Philip Sickle 2l 80
433 ... Caldwalader Evans
493 ... George Bingham 3O 74
2 lots, Sylvester Biddle 1 12
1 lot, Stewell Bishop 1 04
2 lots, Gustave English 2 OS
3 lots, 11. Fassett
2 lots, H. D. Moore 1 12
2 lots, R. 0. Moorehouse 1 12
1 lot, Henry Simmons 1 04
1 lot, J. B. Stevenson 56
2 lots, Benjamin Tingley 2 96
2 lots, Samuel Tobias
Henderson Township.
96 acres, E. A. Green. 4 24
2 lots £, d house, R. C. M'Clill
1 lot and house, John Snyder's estate 2 37
1 lot, D. R. P. Neely 7 60
2 lots, Esther Lytle 9 60
2 acres, Charles German
8 lots, Rev. Luther Smith
1 lot, George Brumbaugh...
4 acres, A. A. Cohill 1 80
1 lot, David Coble 9 50
1 lot and house, William Mitchell
1 lot, H. Miller 3 38
1 lot, Mary E. Warfel 4 75
2 lots and house, Wm. K. Burchinell 39 90
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3 lots, Saniuel Patterson
1 lot, Thomas Irvin 1 65
1 lot, Miss P. C. Miller 2 38
1 lot, Margaret Roberts 1 90
1 lot, Emily S. Scott 3 37
Planing Mill, Stewart, March & Co 9l 2G
Penn St., Hall, Wharton & Maguire 45 60
Car Manufacturing Co., Orbison & Co 95 95
one-hlaf lot,Mrs. Culbertson 2 00
1 lot and house, William Bouland 5 70
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1 lot, Andrew H. Frank 1 37
1 lot, Daniel Montgomery 3 30
1 lot, John M. Stonerod. 1 37
House and lot, Joseph Croney 6 05
1 lot, Robert Giffen 3 75
1 lot and house, John Gefford 7 80
One-half lot and house, A. A. Jacobs S 60
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1 lot, Abraham S. Johnston..
One-half lot, Wm. McCauley
1 85
11 17
7 43
7 31
2 45
4 65
1 lot, Jeremiah Norris 2 37
Hopewell Township.
1975 acres ' W. W. 44 D. C. Entriken 7l 69
109 acres, Adolphus Patterson's heirs 5 22
Oneida Township.
1321 acres, Swoone & Hunter
Tod Townthip.
755 acres, W. W. k D. C. Entrikin 8 64
1256 acres, John Weest, (James Entrikin's
Agent
G. ASHMAN MILLER,
apr 12] Treasurer.
H 20
11 58
22 40
, . 7 66
8 40
, . 10 97
24 72
22.40
.. 10 64
22 40
.. 12 30
ASSIGNEE'S SALE
-OF-
Valuable Real Estate.
1 54
4 18
3 94
3 90
4 02
2 50
3 94
Estate of BEXJAMIX RA ifSEY.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Common
Pleas, of Huntingdon county, the undersigned As
signee of Benj. Ramsey, will offer at public sale
at the Court House, Huntingdon, Pa., on
SATURDAY, Alay 11th, 1878,
at one o'clock, P. M., the following described real
estate:
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No. I—All that certain farm situate in Spring
field township, Huntingdon county, Pa., adjoining
lands of Silas Starr, John Brown, David Wible,
George Nonemaker, Elihu Brown, H. C. Cremer
and tract No. 2 hereinafter described and divided
therefrom by the following line, to-wit : Beginning
at pine stump north 301 east 29 perches to a white
pine : north 60i degrees west 36 perches to a stone ;
west 30 , 1 degrees east, 27 5-10 perches to a stone;
north Eli degrees west, 58 perches to a stone, con
taining one hundred acres more or less, about 60
acres cleared and in cultivation—balance timber
land—having thereon a two-story log dwelling
house, log barn and other outbuildings end an
orchard.
4 91
13 32
8 95
10 02
8 14
12 54
8 36
6 17
... 1 7b
... 14 83
... 1 73
... 11 91
... 1 54
... 1 20
6 03
... 4 47
... 2 77
No. 2.—Also all that certain farm situate in the
township and county aforesaid, adjoining lands of
H. C. Cremer, David Ashton, Levi Anderson,Jno.
Brown, Silas Star and tract No. 1 above described
and divided therefrom by theabove described, con
taining seventy-six acres more or less, about 40
acres cleared and in cultivation and the balance
timber land, having thereon a two-story log dwel
ling house, frame barn and other outbuildings.
No. 3.—And also, all the right, title and inter
est, which was of Benj. Ramsey, in that certain
messnage and lying in the forks of the Sidling
Hill and Little Aughwic creeks, in the township
and county aforesaid, adjoining lands of Isaiah
and Newton Madden and the heirs of Benj. Sollers
dec'd., containing two acres more or less.
TERMS OF SALE.—One-third of the purchase
money in hand (on confirmation of sale) and the
balance in two equal annual payments, with inter
est, to be secured by the judgments of the pur
chasers. DAVID ASHTON,
aprl9-3t] Assignee of Benj. Ramsey.
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24 20
21 90
...... 19 71
22 27
TO THE SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF
HUNTINGDON COUNTY
Gentlemen:—ln pursuance of the forty-third
rection of the Act of May 8, 1854, you are hereby
notified to meet in Convention, at the Court House,
in Huntingdon, on the first Tuesday in May, A.
D., 1878, being the seventh day of the month, at
one o'clock in the afternoon, and select viva voce,
by a majority of the whole number of Directors
present, one person of literary and scientific ac
quirements, and of skill and experience in the art
of teaching, as County Superintendent, for the 3
succeeding years; determine the amount of com
pensation for the same, and certify the result to
the State Superintendent at Harrisburg, as requir
ed by the thirty-ninth and fortieth sections of said
act. R. M. MeNHAL,
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County Superintendent of Huntingdon County.
Three Springs, Pa., Apr. 19-3 t
CHEAP
KANSAS LANDS ! !
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12 22
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We own and control the Railway lands of TREGO CO.,
KANSAS, about equally diN ided by the Kansas Pacific R.
R., which we are selling at an average of $3.25 per acre
on easy terms of payment. Alternate sections of Govern
ment lands can be taken as homesteads by actual settlers.
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These lands lie in the Great Limestone Belt of Central
Kansas,
the beet winter wheat producing district of the
United States, yielding fom 20 to 35 Bushels per acre.
The average yearly rainfall in this county is nearly 33
inches per annum, one-third greater than in the much-ex
tolled Arkansas Valley, which has a yearly rainfall of less
than 23 inches per annum in the same longitude.
Stock-Raising and Wool-Growing are very remunerative.
The winters are short and mild. Stock will live all the
year on grass I Living Streams and Springs are numerous.
Pure water is found in wells from 20 to 60 feet deep. The
Healthiest Climate in the World! No fever and ague there.
No muddy or impassable roads. Plenty of fine building
stone, lime and sand. These lands are being rapidly set
tled by the beet class of Northern and Eastern people, and
will so appreciate in value by the improvements now be
ing made as to make their purchase at present prices one
of the very best investments that can be made, aside from
the profits to be derived from their cultivation. Members
of our firm reside in WA-KEENEY, and will show Wade
at any time. A pamphlet, giving full information in re
gard to soil, climate, water supply, dec., will be sent free
on request. Address,
Warren Keeney 81, Co.,
106 Dearborn St., Chicago, sr We-Keeney, Trego Coun
ty, Kansas. [Aprl2-Sm.
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36 90
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16 66
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SPRANKLE, WEAVER & CO,
Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants,
225 & 227 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
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SEATED LIST.
Broad Top City.
Huntingdon Borough.
Miscellaneous.
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Love in Death.
A mother sits by a lowly grave,
A hillock small and green,
With two grey stones at the bead and feet,
And a dasied turf between.
Silent she sits in that place of graves,
As if tranced in a dream of prayer;
And her hand oft plays with the rustling grass,
As with curls of an infant's hair.
Does she think of the time when she hushed it oft
With cradle lullabies?
Or when it hung on her teeming breast,
With a smile in its lifted eyes?
Or when she touched with a reverent hand,
(When its sunny years were three,)
The lamb-like fleece of its flaxen locks,
As it played beside her knee?
Or the hour when the sad and simple pall
Was borne from the cottage door,
And its dancing step was never heard
Again on the household floor?
Does she fondly image a cherub shape,
'Mid a shining angel band,
With star-crowned locks and garments white,
With a lily in its hand ?
Silent her thought; but at twilight hour,
Ever she sitteth there;
And her hand oft plays with the rustling grass,
As with curls of an infant's hair.
Ire *,trq—Etiter.
A TERRIBLE NIGHT.
"By Jove, Dick, I'm nearly done up I"
"So am I. Did any one ever see such
a confounded forest, Charley ?"
"I am not alone weak but hungry. Oh,
for a steak of moose, with a bottle of old
red wine to wash it down !"
"Charley, beware ! Take care how you
conjure up such visions in my mind. I
am already nearly starving, and if you in.
crease my appetite much more it will go
hard with rue if I don't dine off you. You
are young, and Bertha says you're tender
"Hearted, she meant. Well, so I am,
if loving Bertha be any proof of it. Do
you know, Dick, I have often wondered
that you, who love your sister so passion
ately, were not jealous of her attachment
to me."
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2 42
"So I was, my dear fellow, at first—fu
riously jealous. But then I reflected that
Bertha must one day or other marry, and
I must lose my sister; so I thought it bet
ter that she should marry my old college
chum and early friend, Charles Costarre,
than any one else. So you see there was
a little selfishness in my calculation, Char
ley."
"Dick, we were friends at school, and
friends at college, and I thought at both
these places that nothing could shorten
the link that bound us together, but I was
mistaken. Since my love for and engage
ment to your sister, I feel as if you were
fifty times the friend that you were before.
Dick, we three will never part !"
"So he married the King's daughter,
and they all lived together as happy as the
days are long," shouted Dick, with a laugh,
quotino• b from a nursery tale.
The foregoing is an extract out of the
conversation with which Dick bilcon and
myself endeavored to beguile the way, as
we tramped through one of the forests of
Northern New York. Dick was an artist
and I a sportsman, so when one fine Au
tumn day he announced his intention of
going into the woods for a week to study
nature, it seemed to me an excellent op
portunity for me to exercise my legs and
my trigger finger at the same time. Dick
had some backwoods friend who lived in a
log hut on the shores of Eckford Lake,
and there we determined to take up our
quarters. Dick, who said he knew the
forest thoroughly, was to be the guide, and
we accordingly, with our guns on our
shoulders, started on foot from Root's, a
tavern known to tourists, and situated on
the boundaries of Essex and Warren
counties. It was a desperate walk, but we
started at daybreak, and had great faith in
our pedestrian qualities. We expected to
reach the nearest of the Eckford lakes by
nightfall. The forest through which we
traveled was of the densest description.—
Overhead the branches of spruce and pine
shut out the day, while beneath our feet
lay a frightful soil, composed .principally
of jagged shingle, cunningly concealed by
an almost impenetrable bush. As the day
wore on our hopes of reaching our destina
tion became fainter and fainter, and I could
almost fancy, from the anxious glances that
Dick cast around him, that in spite of his
boasted knowledge of the woods he had
lost his way. It was not, however, until
night actually fell in, and that we were
both sinking from hunger and exhaustion,
that I could get him to acknowledge it.
"We're in a nice pickle, Master Dick,"
said I, rather crossly, for an empty stom
ach does much to destroy a man's natural
amiability. "Confound your assurance
that led you to set up as a guide. Of all
men painters are the most conceited "
"Come, Charley," answered Dick, good
humoredly, "there's no use in growling so
loudly. You'll bring the bears and panthers
on us if you do. We must make the best
of a bad job and sleep in a tree."
"It's easy to talk, my good fellow. I'm
not a partridge, and don't know how to
roost on a bough."
"Well, you'll have to learn then ; for if
you sleep on the ground the chances are
ten to one that you will have the wolves
nibbling at your toes before daylight.'
"I'm hanged if I do either," said I des
perately. "I'm going to walk all night
and I'll drop before I'll lie down."
"Come, come, Charley, don't be a fool."
"I was a fool only when I consented to
let you assume the role of a guide."
"Well, Charley, if you are determined
to go on 'let it be so ; we'll go together.—
After all, it's only an adventure."
"I say, Dick, cion't t ,you see a light ?"
"By Jove, so there is ! Come, you see
Providence intervenes between us and the
wolves and hunger. That must be some
squatter's hut."
The light to which I had so suddenly
called Dick'a attention was very faint, and
seemed to be about half a mile distant.—
It glimmered through the dark branches
of the hemlock and spruce trees, and weak
as the light was, I hailed it as a mariner
without a compass hails the star by which
he steers. We instantly set out in the di
rection of our beacon. In a moment it
seemed as if all fatigue had vanished, and
we walked as if our muscles were as tense
as iron and our joints oily as a piston shaft.
We soon arrived at what in the dusk
seemed to be a clearing of about five acres,
but it may have been larger, for the tall
forest rising up around it must have di
minished its apparent size, giving it the
appearance of a square pit rather than a
farm. Toward one corner of the clearing
we discerned the dusky outline of a log
hut, through whose single end window a
faint light was streaming. With a sigh
of relief we hastened to the door and
HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1878.
knocked. It was opened immediately and
a man appeared on the threshold. We
explained our condition and were instantly
invited to walk in and make ourselves at
home. All our host said he could offer
us were some cold Indian corn cakes and a
slice of dried deer's flesh, to all of which
we were heartily welcome. These viands,
in our starving condition, were luxuries to
us, and we literally reveled in anticipation
of a full meal. The hut into which we
had so unceremoniously entered was of the
most poverty-stricken order. It consisted
of but one room, with a rude brick fire
place at one end. Some deer skins and
old blankets were stretched out by way of
a bed at the other extremity of the apart
ment, and the only seats vsible were two
sections of a large pine trunk that stood
close to the fireplace. There was no vestige
of a table, and the rest of the furniture was
embodied in a long Tennessee rifle that
hung close to the rough wall.
if the hut was remarkable its proprietor
was still more so. lie was. I think, the
most villainous looking man I ever beheld.
About six feet two inches in height, pro
portionately broad across the shoulders,
and with a hand large enough to pick up
a fifty-six pound shot, he seemed to be a
combination of extraordinary strength and
agility. his head was narrow and oblong
in shape. His straight, Indian-like hair
fell smoothly over his low forehead as if it
had been plastered with soap, and his
black, bead like eyes were set obliquely
and slanted downwards towards his nose,
giving him a mingled expression of ferocity
and cunning. As I examined his features
attentively, in which I thought I could
trace almost every bad passion, I confess I
experienced a certain feeling of apprehen
sion and distrust I could not shake off.
While he was getting us the promised
food we tried, by questioning him, to draw
him into conversation. He seemed very
taciturn and reserved. He said he lived
entirely alone, and had cleared the spot he
occupied with his own hands. He said
his name was Joel; but when we hinted
that he must have some other name he
pretended not to hear us, though I saw his
brows knit and his small black eyes flash
angrily. My suspicions of this man were
further aroused by observing a pair of
shoes lying in a corner of the .hut. These
shoes were at least three sizes smaller than
those that our gigantic host wore, and yet
he had distinctly replied that he lived en
tirely alone. If those shoes were not his,
whose were they ? The more I reflected
on this circumstance the more uneasy I
felt, and my apprehensions were still fur
ther aroused when Joel, as he called him.
self, took both our fowling pieces and, in
order to have them out of the way, as he
said, hung them on crooks from the wall,
at a heighth that neither Dick nor I could
reach without getting on a stool I smiled
inwardly, however, as I felt the smooth
barrel of my revolver, that was slung in the
hollow of my back by its leathern belt, and
thought to myself, if this fellow has any
bad designs, the more unprotected he
thinks us the more incautious he will be;
so I made no effort to retain our guns.—
Dick also had a revolver, and was one of
those men who I knew would use it well
when the time came.
My suspicions of cur host grew at last
to such a pitch that I determined to com
municate them to Dick. Nothing would
be easier than fur this villainous half-breed
—for I felt convinced that he had Indian
blood in him—nothing would be easier
than, with the aid of an accomplice, to cut
our throats or shoot us while we were
asleep, and so get our guns, watches and
whatever money we carried. Who in these
lonely woods would hear the shot, or hear
our cry for help? What emissary of the
law, however sharp, could point out our
graves in those wild woods, or bring the
murder home to those who committed it?
Linton at first laughed, then grew serious,
and gradually became a convert to my ap
prehensions. We hurriedly agreed that
while one slept the other should watch,
and so take it in turns through the night.
Joel had surrendered to us couch of
deer skins and his blanket ; he, himself,
said he could sleep quite as well on the
floor near the fire. As Dick and I were
both very tired, we were anxious to get
our rest as soon as possible. So after a
hearty meal of deer steak and tough cakes,
washed down by a good draught from our
brandy flask, I, being the younger, got the
first hour's sleep, and flung myself on the
couch of skins. As my eyes gradually
closed, I saw a dim picture of Dick seated
sternly watching by the fire, and the long
shape of the half-breed stretching out like
a huge shadow upon the floor.
After what I could have sworn to be
only a three minutes doze, Dick woke me
and informed me that my hour was out,
and turning me out of my warm nest, lay
down without any ceremony, and in a few
seconds was heavily snoring. I rubbed
my eyes, felt for my revolver, and seating
myself on one of the pine stumps coin
menced my watch. The half breed ap
peered to be buried in profound slumber,
and in the half-weird light cast by the
wood embers his enormous figure seemed
almost Titanic in its proportions. I con
fess I felt that in a struggle for- life he
was more than a match for Dick and my
self. I then looked at the fire and began
a favorite amusement of mine—shaping
forms in the embers. All sorts of figures
defined themselves before me. Battles,
tempests at sea, familiar faces, and above
all shone, ever returning, the dear features
of Bertha Linton, my affianced bride. She
seemed to me to smile at me through a
burning haze, and I could almost fancy I
heard her say, "While you are watching
in the lonely forest. I am thinking of you
and praying for your ,afety."
A slight movement on the part of the
slumbering half breed here recalled me from
these sweet dreams. He turned on his
side, lifted himself slowly up on his elbow,
and gazed attentively at me. I did not
stir. Still retaining my stooping attitude,
I half closed my eyes and remained mo
tionless. Doubtless he thought I was
asleep, for in a moment or two he arose
noiselessly, and creeping with a stealthy
step across the floor, passed out the hut.
I listened—oh ! how eagerly. It seemed
to me that through the imperfectly joined
crevices of the log walls I could plainly
hear voices whispering. I would have
given worlds to have crept nearer to listen,
but I was fearful of disturbing the fancied
security of our host, who I now felt certain
had sinister designs upon us. So I re
mained perfectly still. The whisperings
suddenly ceased. The half breed re-entered
the hut in the same stealthy way in which
he had quitted it, and after giving a scru
tinizing glance at me once more stretched
himself upon the floor and affected to sleep.
In a few moments I pretended to awake—
yawned, looked at my watch, and finding
that my hour had more than expired, pro
ceed to wake Dick. As I turned him out
of bed I whispered in his ear : "Don't
take your eyes off that fellow, Dick. He
has accomplices outside ;be careful !" Dick
gave a meaning glance, carelessly touched
his revolver, as much as to say, "Here's
something to interfere with his little ar
rangements," and took his seat on the pine
stump, in such a position as to command a
view of the sleeping half-breed and the
doorway at the same time.
This time, though awfully tired, I could
not sleep. A horrible load seemed press
ing on my chest, and every five minutes I
would start up and see if Dick was keeping
his watch faithfully. My nerves were
strung to a frightful pitch of tensity; my
heart beat at every sound, and my head
seemed to throb until I thought my temples
would burst. The more I reflected on the
conduct of the half-breed the more assured
I was that he intended murder. Full of
this idea I took my revolver from its sling
and held it in my hand ready to shoot him
down at the first movement that appeared
at all dangerous. A haze seemed now to
pass across my eyes. Fatigued with long
watching and excitement I passed into
that semi conscious state in which I seemed
perfectly aware of everything that passed,
although objects were dim and dull in out
line, and did not appear so sharply defined
as in one's waking moments. I was ap
parently roused from this state by a crack
ling sound. I started and raised myself
on my elbow. My heart ceased to beat at
what I saw. The half breed had lit some
species of drie 1 herb, which sent out a
strong aromatic odor as it burned. This
herb he was holding directly under Dick's
nostrils, who I now perceived, to my hor
ror, was wrapped in a profound slumber.
The smoke of this mysterious herb ap
geared to deprive him of all consciousness,
for he rolled gently off the pine log and
lay stretched upon the floor. The half
breed now stole to the door and opened it
gently. Three sinister heads peered in
out of the gloom. I saw the long barrels
of rifles, and the huge, brawny hands that
clasped them. The half-breedpointed sig
nificantly to where I lay with his long,
bony finger, then, drawing a large, thirsty
looking knife from his breast, moved toward
me. The time was come. My blood
stopped—my heart ceased to beat. The
half-breed was within a foot of my bed;
the knife was raised; another instant and
it would have been buried in my heart,
when, with a hand as cold as ice, I lifted
my revolver, took deadly aim, and fired !
A stunning report, a dull groan, a huge
cloud of smoke curling around me, and I
found myself standing upright with a dark
mass lying at my feet.
"Great God ! what have you done, sir ?"
cried the half-breed, rushing toward me.
"You have killed him ! He was just about
to wake you."
I staggered against the wall. My senses,
until then immersed in sleep, suddenly re
covered their activity. The frightful truth
burst upon me in a flash. I had shot Dick
Linton while under the influence of a
nightmare ! Then everything seemed to
fade away and I remembered no more.
There was a trial, I believe. The law
yers were learned, and proved by physi
cians that it was a case of what is called
somnolentia or sleep drunkenness, but of
the proceedings I took no heed. One
form haunted me, lying black and heavy
on the hut floor; and one pale face was
ever present—a face I saw once after the
terrible catastrophe and never saw again—
the wild, despairing face of Bertha Linton,
my promised bride !
*tied glistellang.
Greek Meets Greek.
One day last week a lightning rod man
and a life insurance agent made their ad
vent in this community, and that without
a knowledge of each other's presence.—
They began both to canvass Merrill avenue
with an ardor and enthusiasm peculiar to
the profession only. It is unnecessary to say
that under such an accumulation of horrors
most of the residents yielded in apathetic
despair. One individual remained yet to
be interviewed, and as fortune ordained it
the two agents arrived simultaneously one
morning at his gate. They fell into the
mutual error of imagininr , the other to be
the person with whom they were seeking
to obtain an interview. The lightning-rod
man opened fire first with :
"Good morning, sir."
"Good morning; good morning," replied
the insurance agent, cheerfully.
"I am glad to meet you," continued the
other. "I wish to avail myself of the op
portunity of addressing you upon a subject
of vital importance—"
"By all means, by all means," responded
the insurance agent delighted in being an
ticipated, as be imagined,upon the subject
nearest his heart. "It will afford me in
expressible pleasure to—"
"Thank you, thank you," eagerly inter
rupted the dealer in lightning rods, de
lighted in his turn, at getting such a cus
tomer, and continuing : "I have no doubt
that you thoroughly comprehend how es
sential it is for the security—"
"Just what I was about to observe,"
again chirped in the insurance agent.
'The danger "
"Yes, yes," said the other, "the danger
is more than enhanced by neglect, and the
only effectual—"
"Just so," again interrupted the life in
surance agent. "I felt sure that you would
comprehend at once how absolutely neces
sary it was to establish safeguards calcu
lated—"
"Of course, of course," said the lightning
rod man, running over in his mind whether
he had enough rods on hand to supply
such an eager customer. Then again con
tinuing : "You arc doubtless aware of the
fact that a false economy often leads—"
"I perceive," said the insurance agent,
"that your mind is above the ordinary
level, and is one that can easily recognize
the penny wise, pound foolish system—"
"Thank you. Your opinion is but the
reflex of my own," answered the other.—
And they continued, the one interrupting
the other, and both endeavoring co impress
his listner until it became a question of
endurance merely. The lightning rod
man, though of a stouter build, was the
first to succumb, and at length he sank
with an expiring gasp, casting a look of
reproach upon the insurance agent. The
life insurance agent lasted a few moments
longer, but he, too, at length sank by the
side of the lightning rod man, whispering
in his ear. They both uerished literally
talked to death. The sad affair has cast a
gloom over the community.
"Do you know," remarked a rather fast
Newark youth the other day to a stutter
ing friend to whom he was slightly indebt
ed, "Do you know that I intend to marry
and settle down ?" "I do-don't know any
thing about it," was the reply, "bu-but I
think you had better stay single and set
settle up."
Fruits.
The Prophet Joel enumerating the trees
of Syria says : "The vine is dried up, and
the fig tree languisheth ; the pomegranate
tree, the plum tree, also the apple tree,
even all the trees of the field are withered.
Pliny mentions apple trees in the villages
near the city of Rome, as being profitable.
Grafting was not probably known at an
early day; Moses in his directions to the
Israelites to plant all kind of trees for food,
says nothing about grafting. Hesiod and
Homer, who wrote very fully, do not al
lude to it. The art of grafting has been
ascribed to accident, the natural union of
branches of distinct trees. Within the
last fifty years, great improvement has
been made in the cultivation of the apple,
and splendid varieties are easily attainable.
In Shakespeare's time good apples were
notioeable. For in the "Merry Wives of
Windsor," Justice Shallow says to Falstaff,
"you shall see mine orchard, where, in an
arbor we will eat a last years pippin of my
own grafting."
Again, in some play, Sir Hugh says :
"I will make an end of mine dinner—
there's pippins and cheese to come." Pip
pins were so called, as they were raised
from the seed of pips. Although England
is and has been always famous for both
quality and quantity of apples, yet within
a few years the United Slates has success
fully rivaled her in superior fruit, and an
nually exports many thousands of barrels
to that country.
Homer, describing the trees in the or
chard of Laertes, mentions the pear. Pliny
speaks of several varieties, as also of a li
quor made from the fruit. France, Germa
ny and Spain have paid more attentian to
its cultivation than other countries. The
Chinese, however, in this as in any other
cultivation of fruits, have carried the pear
to its greatest perfection and size, speci
mens have been grown, delicate, fragrant
and melting, weighing ten pounds. Recent
ly, great attention has been paid in this
country to its cultivation.
The quince, Pliny says came from the
island of Crete. From its splendid golden
color, some assert it was the same with the
apples of Hesperides; Galesio, in his trea
tise on the orange, says that the orange
was not known to the Greeks, and did not
grow in the locality where the gardens of
Hesperides were placed. The term mar
malade is derived from the Portuguese
name for the quince marmclo.
Luck.
Some people are fond of denying that
there is any such thing as "luck," but, be
that as it may, there certainly are persons
to whom what seems like fortuitous good
fortune comes. Colonel Green Wilkison
gave a seat in his pew, in London, to an
old gentleman, who left him $40,000 a
year.
A young Bostonian crossed to England
three or four years ago and got into con
versation with an elderly gentleman, who
observed that they bad the same name. It
turned out that they were second cousins.
The elder bad gone to California, in the
early days, made a vast fortune, and entire
iy lost sight of his relations. That chance
meeting gave the young man a fortune of
between two and three millions.
Two young ladies had a box at the opera,
in London. An old man opposite bored
them dreadfully by perpetually "lorgnet
ting" them. The scene came to an end,
and they thought no more about him.
One day, a year afterward, a solicitor call
ed on one of the ladies, Lady Frances
Bruce, and told her that an old gentleman
Mr. W., bad left her property worth sev
eral thousand a year. "Never beard of
the man," she said. "Must be a mistake."
"Very extraordinary," replied the solicitor.
Suddenly a happy thought struck him.
"He lies in his coffin, in St. James street,
close by,at Bantings, the great undertaker ;
will you come with me and see him ?"
She went. It was the old lorgnetter.
And it is said that he left it to her in a
mistake, after all, having intended to leave
it to her friend, whom—not Lady Frances
—he admired, but he was misinformed as
to the names of the two ladies.
And to give one more—a quite recent
instance. A young New Yorker went to
San Francisco to seek the fortune so many
have failed to find. Be got a poor clerk
ship, and had to be thankful for that.
One evening at a place of entertainment,
he watched a game of cards, saw an elderly
Englishman was being cheated, exposed
the - fraud, and had a tussle with the cheat.
The Englishman has presented him with
twenty thousand dollars to start him in
business, and there is every prospect that
there is more to come.
Texas Caniels.
There is a camel ranch in Bastrop
county, Texas, which has been in existence
some twenty years, and furnished many
menageries with these ungainly beasts for
exhibition. The Hempstead Messenger
reports another shipment of a car load of
ten camels from Elgin, a railroad station
near to Janesville, Wisconsin, where they
are to be added to the attractions of a
travelling menagerie. The Messenger
briefly repeats the history of the eamel
breeding in Texas.
The camels are the progency of the herd
brought into Texas about twenty years ago,
with the expectation that they would be
used for transportation on the staked plains
and other desert regions, about the time of
the Mormon rebellion. They were landed
at Galveston, but the chances of employing
them profitably for army purposes failed,
and they were sold. They proved some
what like the elephant won in the raffle to
the first purchasers, but finally fell into the
hands of M. D. Mather, of Elgin, who Bow
owns the whole herd, about forty in num
ber. Every year sales are made of the in
crease, which is usually about ten, to the
various showmen in the country. The
price they bring is from $250 to $5OO each
at from two to five years of age. Mr.
Lanfear says :
They are no more trouble to raise than
horses or cattle. The colts for the first
three or four days are rather tender and,
require close attention, but after that they
take their chances with the herd. They
feed on cactus and brush, eschewing all
grasses that cattle and horses eat, if the
favorite cactus can be had. The females,
with proper care, give a colt every year,
and the price at which they are sold, the
ease with which they aro raised, their
extreme docility, and the adaptability of
our climate to their nature would seem to
indicate that camel raising is a profitable
business in Texas, Mr. Lanfear says
there is one camel in the herd that has
traveled 150 miles between sun and sun,
and that most any well broke camel is
good for more than one hunred miles in
a day.
ThE four daughters of a man named Pints
aro known as half a gallon of 'lasses.
Lines to Darwin.
Ah, Darwin, boy, you say that we
Were monkeys, lung ago ;
Since your researches have been wide,
Y')u surely ought to know.
I shall not quarrel, learned sir,
With your ancestral claims;
You're welcome to the monkey-blood
That courses through your veins.
But though I'm not ambitious, sir,
To trace my lineage back,
And claim relation with the apes,
I'll not dispute the fact;
And, taking it for granted, sir,
I'm going now to show
What idiots the monkeys were
For not remaining so.
I'll prove that they have nothing gained
By turning into c.en :
They've learned one nasty habit now,
They never dreamed of then.
No monkeys, in the olden days,
E'er held a begging paw
Toward another monkey friend,
And asked of him a "chew."
No cheek distended by a quid,
In monkey land was seen;
An old baboon would hold his nose,
At taste and smell unclean.
Young monkey ne'cr came reeling home,
At half-past one or two;
They never betted, raced and swore,
As now young monkeys do.
They never called their aged sire
That shameless phrase, "old man ;"
'Tie since the monkeys were cur-tailed,
This custom they began.
And she who watched their infant sports,
With fond, approving eye—
" Old woman" wasn't just the style
They called their mother by.
Old Mr. Monkey never threw
The boot-jack at his wife;
He never kissed the serving maid,
And thus engendered strife;
He never met a bosom friend,
And tarried out till day,
Awaiting for his own front door
To waltz around that way.
And Mrs. Monkey, good old soul,
Ne'er let her tongue o'erflow ;
For Caudle lectures were not known
In monkeydom, I trow.
She never teased for bonnets new,
Nor followed fashion's call ;
She only had one dress of fur,
For Winter, Spring, and Fall.
And monkey misses never strapped
A bustle on their back,
Until they looked the image of
A peddler with a pack;
They never swept the side-walks clean,
With dresses flowing free,
Nor wore the skirts pinned back so tight
They couldn't bend the knee.
That dreadful thing, the "Grecian bend,"
Had never come to light;
And iE it had, they'd not have viewed
The horror with delight.
Though they were monkeys, yet they felt
Some native pride was due—
They'd no desire to be transformed
Into a kangaroo.
Young Monkey lovers wooed and wed,
And mated staid for life;
They never sought "affinities,"
Nor loved their neighbor's wife.
And monkeys would have blushed, had they
(Though by the law's decree)
One wife in England, one in Spain,
And one in Italy.
No monkey held a license, then,
To sell the fiery curse ;
And never dipped a thieving paw
Into the public purse.
All this, and many things beside,
My weeping Muse bewai's ;
Ab, Darwin, boy, the change is bad—
Just give us back the tails !
The Structure of an Iron Ship.
There are but two forms of iron used in
shipbuilding, the angle bar and flit plate.
These plates come from the rolling mill,
and are of every imaginableshape and size.
The usual size of a plate or sheet is a little
more than one yard wide, and from two to
four yards long, and three fourths of an
inch thick. Out of these two shapes nearly
every form of modern iron structure may
be made, be it ship, bridge, dock, or water
tank. From the wooden patterns of the
ship have been made the frames, and from
the model are copied the shape and dimen
sions of each sheet of iron that is to cover,
as with a skin, the outside of the ship's
hull.
It seems impossible that mere flat plates
and angle bars can be securely fastened to
gether with nails or screws. Wood may
be dovetailed and fitted together, and may
be bound with nails. Iron is simply lapped
piece over piece at the edge and sewed to
gether. It is treated as a fabric, except
that the thread that binds the cloth is con
tinuous, and in the iron sheet each needle
hole has one piece of thread knotted on
each side suppose two plates or a plate
and a bar are to be joined, holes of a uni
form size are punched along the edge of
each piece, and the two pieces are laid to
gether so that the holes correspond. A
small bolt, called a rivet, having a head
formed on one end, is heated red hot and
is then passed through the two holes in the
plates or bars. The head stops it on one
side, and the hot and soft point projects at
the other side. A hammer is held against
the head or the rivet to keep it in place,
and with hammers the soft point is beaten
down till it makes a new head by spread
ing over the edges of the hole. The rivet
at once cools and contracts, and binds the
two pieces of iron so firmly together that
only the most powerful strain can ever pull
them apart. In this simple manner is
every plate, bar and beam joined together
throughout the ship.
The Earliest Forms of Metal Money.
The first forms which could be called
by the name of money, were ingots in va
rious shapes, stamped or sealed with the
seal of the ruler, as a certificate of the
quality of the piece, no attempt being made
to fashion the coin as to guard against al
teration of weight. Some of the early
pieces were stamped on but one side, and
it was only by very gradual steps, that the
handsome circular pieces, which we now
use as coins, were evolved. But these are
still defined by Jevous as 'ingots, of which
the weight and fineness are certified by the
integrity of the designs impressed upon
the surface of the metal.
The stamping of the bits of metal has
always been assumed as a perogative of the
ruler, and to supply the people with coin,
has become to be a generally considered
function of government. It will be well
to bear the above definition of coin in
mind ; for the fashioning, stamping and.
certification have caused a very important
fact to be lost sight of which is, that
throughout these changes the metals con
tinue to be commodities and nothing more.
The stamp works no alteration in the
metal, any more than does the label on a
bolt of muslin, showing the width and the
number of yards, convert it into something
other than cotton cloth. The conversion
of the unfashioned metal into coin in no
way affects the principle of exchanges, and
its transfer is better just as much as it was
in the beginning.
FOLLY OF JUDGING APPEARANCES.-
His wife caught him with his arms around
the hired girl's neck, but his courage even
in this trying extremity never forsook him.
"I suspected some one of stealing the
whiskey on the preserves, Jane, for some
time, and of course you know her breath
would have told if she was the guilty
party."—Baltimare Sun.
Cheaper Than Before the War.
AN INTERESTING COMPARISON OP Tliit
PRICES OF PRODUCE IN 1860 AND
1878.
The Philadelphia Press lately published
an elaborate table or comparative state
ment of prices covering a period of nine
teen years. It is a valuable paper show
ing that we have at last struck hard pan.
On all leading articles of consumption there
has been a decline from the prices of 1860
at this time of from 25 to 45 per cent.
Flour worth $6 per barrel in 1860 can now
be bought for $4.75 ; with wheat the fig-
ures are $1.55 and $1.35 for white at this
date. But the change will be more easily
seen in a short table :
In 1860
Rye B5 Rye 6B
Yellow Corn 7O Yellow Corn 52
Oats
Barley BO Barley 6O
Moss Pork 81835 Mess Pork BlO.OO
Beef holds its own. Beef holds its own.
Hama. lollama
Iron 522.00 Iron 517(44110
Turpentine
Wool 45 Woo t 33
The chief articles of food and household
necessity have been the subject of investi
gation. From an examination of them, it
will be seen that in these lines the cost of
living is from 20 to 33, and even 45 per
cent., or articles of prime importance, less
than in the year before the war. Had the
examination been pushed into the field of
manufactured articles, no doubt a like, if
not a greater, reduction would have been
found there. Cotton fabrics are selling at
a reduction of full forty per cent., from
anti-war prices on the more common and
staple goods. There was a common im
pression that it was only necessary to get
back to the solid ground of 1860 in order
to touch trade bottom, and thence to begin
an improvement in business. Yet while
our heaviest products are much lower in
price than in 1860, they cannot find a
ready market, and they are still under a
dcwnward tendency.
Influence of Forests.
BY J. S. FAY
History shows that the whole territory
which surrounds the Mediterranean sea
and contiguous to it was once the most
populous and fertile region of the earth.
The very Desert of •Sahara gives signs that
it was once a well-watered plain. Tripoli,
now almost depopulated and containing
only about 45,000 inhabitants, in the early
part of the Christian era had a population
of about 6,000,000. The climate, once
like Southern Virginia, is now so intoler
bable that steamships passing that coast
have to keep up an artificial shower of wa
ter on their decks to save the lives of their
crews, while on land no out of door work
can be done between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m.,
and this change is directly attributable to
the destruction of their forests. The down
ward tendency in Algeria has been arrest
ed by the conquests of the country by the
French. The French gave immediate at•
tention to this important point, and the
forests received proper protection, and are
yielding the result of tempering the heat
and dryness of the climate and adding val
ue to the country as a colony. Spain,
Portugal and Italy have lost their popula
tion and the power of sustaining it, just in
proportion to the destruction of their for
ests, until now their Governments are ta
king measures to restore them. The great
chemist Leibig is said to have expressed
the opinion that "the decay of the ancient
empires, of Greece and Rome, was due
more or less to the neglect of their people
to take care of their land and its fertilizer
and climate regulator, the forest?' There
is now no European nation that is not giv
ing attention to this branch of cultivation,
because their lands have been losing their
fertility and their climate its moisture.
Asia Minor, once a most populous and fer
tile country, is now comparatively a desert,
almost treeless, and has only a th;n, scat
tered population. Egypt was suffering
under the same condition till within the
last fifty years, extensive plantations have
been made to serve as a barrier against the
sands of the desert, and the effect upon
the climate already has been marked. Mil
lions of trees have been planted, with the
effect of nearly doubling the rainfall. This
is demonstration, and is but the beginning.
A hilly country must suffer more by de
foresting than a level one like Egypt. For
when the trees are cut off, there being
nothing to bold the soil, the richer and
lighter portions, the mold, washes down to
the valleys and streams and is carried off
in fn shets to the sea. This is illustrated
in a large tract of mountainous country in
Austria called Vinstenland, or Kartsland,
north of Trieste. This was heavily wood
ed until it was stripped by the Venetians
and the timbers carried away some centu
ries ago, when the whole district became
utterly desolate and sterile, showing noth
ing but a covering of rough, loose bould
ers. This continued until lately, when the
Austrian Government commenced vigor
ously to reforest it. They have planted
there 1,000,000 trees annually for some
years past, and its conditions and aspect
have materially improved. In our own
country we have hardly lived long enough
99 a people to know the full effects of clear
ing the land extensively. The springs,
and smaller streams, however, are drier in
summer, and in many places dig, soil is
washed away. These effects apprar in the
famous blue-grass regions of Kentucky.
There the stock farmers are moving to
ward the Cumberland mountains because
the creeks and springs dried up and their
wells became too low to supply sufficient
water for the cattle. Of late years, also,
a very marked diminution of the annual
rainfall is manifested in the upper part of
Vermont, heretofore one of the finest ag
ricultural sections. It shows itself in the
drying up of wells and springs and in the
diminution of the annual crops. It is, to
say the least, remarkably coincident with
the great waste, destruction and consump
.
tion - of the forests of the Adriondacks on
the west, of the Green mountains on the
east, and along the lines of the railroads
connecting Lake Ontario and the River
St. Lawrence with Lake Champlain. On
the south shores of Lake Superior there is
a perceptible diminution of the annual
snowfall, contemporaneously with or fol
lowing the great destruction or the forest
by fires, and for lumbering, furnace and
railroad purposes.—Chicago Journal.
"No, I can't pay you !" exclaimed he ;
"sure's I stand here, I haven't got a cent
of money to my name." And bringing
down his band on the side of his leg by
way of emphasis, he all unintentionally
awoke to the echo the slumbering dimes,
quarters and half-dollars in his trowsers
pocket. Then as his creditor gazed into
his eye, he wildly fled, while he gasped,
"Silver will be the ruin of this country
yet."
THE pretty girls in Utah used to marry
Young, but they wont do so any more.
NO. 18.
In 1878